Lech Walesa Quotes
a Polish political activist and politician, a leader of the Solidarity trade union and political movement, who became the first democratically elected President of Poland (1990 - 1995) after the fall of the People's Republic of Poland.
(1943 - )
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
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Deep faith eliminates fear.
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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
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I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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I have made a 360 degree turn.
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I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
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I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
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I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
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I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
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I'm in favor, and even against.
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
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